 | 1840 - 512 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst vot.xvi.-2b the ureat ocean of trulh lay all undiscovered heforc me.' (Turner's Ci>!li'<-tii>nii relative... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me. Harmlessness of Death. Death is the same harmless... | |
 | Children's literature - 1866 - 302 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me!" Was not that a wise saying, and also very modest... | |
 | Jack (fict.name.) - 1843 - 480 pages
...but as to myself, I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." I shall, with the best wishes for your welfare... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me !" Agrippa's manners, from his early and prolonged... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - Liberalism (Religion) - 1839 - 448 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What a sad testimony to the infant ignorance... | |
 | Author - 1850 - 124 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The Period . When a Sentence is complete and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the, sea-shore, and diverting myself in now trel of his clan : — At first, the chieftain great ocean of Truth lay all uudis- ' covered before me.' Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Chciterßelti. Surely Nature, who had given him... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1846 - 618 pages
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given him... | |
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I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... 
